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Brock, Pope

Bromfield, Louis

Brooke, Michael

Brooks, Louise

Brown, Clarence

Brown, Joe E.

Browning, Robert and Elizabeth Barrett

Browning, Tod

Bruce, David

Bruce, Nigel

Bruce, Virginia

Brunswick, Ruth Mack

Brussels World Film Festival

Buchanan advertising agency

Budapest, Loy trip

Buffum, Howard

Bull, Clarence Sinclair

Bulldog Drummond

Bullins, Ed

Bundles for Bluejackets

Burgess, Gelett

Burke, Billie

Burton, Richard

Burton, Sybil

Butterworth, Charles

Buttons, Red

“Button Your Lip” (Private First Class Irving Gaynor Neiman)

Buy-a-Bomber benefit

Cabanne, Christy

Caesar, Sid

Cagney, Jimmy

Calhern, Louis

California: Depression

Loy comparing London to

Loy’s youth.

See also

Los Angeles; San Diego; San Francisco

cameramen: Brizzi

Howe

Japanese Navy attack on USS

Panay

Loy screen test

MGM

Noah’s Ark

Périnal

process photography

sepia portraiture

Test Pilot

Toland’s deep focus

Vitaphone sound-on-disc system

war.

See also

color; Waxman, Henry

Camille

Campbell, Mrs. Patrick

Canby, Vincent

Cantor, Eddie

Capote, Truman

Capra, Frank

Broadway Bill

Here Comes the Groom

It Happened One Night

Riskin scripts

talkie transition

Capri,

If This Be Sin

Captain’s Courageous

The Captive

, Hornblow-produced

Carillo, Leo

Carmichael, Hoagy

Carnegie Hall, Loy celebration (1985)

Carnera, Primo

Carré, Ben

Carroll, Harrison

Carroll, Madeleine

Cassavetes, John

Cavell, Stanley

The Caveman

CBS, Murrow

censorship: abortion

adultery

miscegenation

nudity

sexuality.

See also

Breen, Joseph (at PCA); drinking; Hays Office; Legion of Decency; Production Code Administration (PCA)

Cerf, Bennett and Phyllis

Chaliapin, Feodor

Channing, Carol

Chaplin, Charlie

Chasman, David

Cheaper by the Dozen

Chéri

(Colette)

Chesterfield studio

Chevalier, Maurice

Chicago

Chicago Daily News

, Loy in

Across the Pacific

Chierichetti, David

“children’s crusade”

China Seas

Christopher, Amy

Christopher, Jordan

Churchill, Winston

CinemaScope

Citizen Kane

Civil Rights Act (1968)

Claire, Ina

Clarke, Harley

Clift, Montgomery

Coate, Roland E.

Cobb, Irvin S.

Cobra

Cock o’ the Walk

Cocteau, Jean

Code.

See

Production Code Administration (PCA)

Coffee, Lenore

Cohen, Benjamin V.

Cohen, Octavus Roy

Cohn, Harry

Colbert, Claudette: and aging

Boom Town

Franco-British War Relief

It Happened One Night

with Loy and Hornblow at Paramount

The Marriage Go Round

Midnight

The Rains Came

cold war.

See also

Red scares

Colette,

Chéri

Collier, Ruth

Collins, Cora Sue

Collins, Jimmy

Collins, Stephen

Colman, Ronald

Arrowsmith

Bulldog Drummond

The Devil to Pay

Hornblow friend

Powell friend

talkie transition

World War II

color: CinemaScope

outdoor color photography

Technicolor

Columbia Pictures: Arthur-Cohn fight

Douglas

Gable

Loy

Comden, Betty

comedy: changes over decades of Loy’s career

Loy

“Negro comedy”

quips

The Thin Man

.

See also

Loy, Myrna—Powell screen partnership and friendship

Committee for the First Amendment

communists: Czechoslovakia takeover

Douglases and

fellow traveler label

Fifth Congress for Peace and Democracy

Hollywood and

Hollywood Ten

HUAC and

Justice Department and

Loy and

Red scares

State Department accused of

Waldorf Statement

Como, Perry

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

Conklin, Heinie

A Connecticut Yankee

Connelly, Marc

Connolly, Walter

Conquest

Conroy, Jack

Consolation Marriage

consumerism,

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Conway, Jack

Cook, Clyde

Coolidge, Calvin

Coons, Robbin

Cooper, Gary: age and

box-office drawing power

Montanan

right-wing politics

World War II

Copland, Aaron

Cortez, Ricardo

Corwin, Norman

Cosmopolitan Productions

Cossart, Ernest

Costello, Dolores

Costello, Helene

Cotten, Joseph

The Count of Monte Cristo

Coward, Noel

Coward McCann

Cowl, Jane

Crain, Jeanne

Crawford, Christina

Crawford, Joan

Black Bottom dance

“British invasion” in Hollywood

brother Hal

daughter Christina

death (1977)

directors

Gable and

The Gorgeous Hussy

in Hornblows’ social life

husband Fairbanks Jr.

Infidelity

The Last of Mrs. Cheyney

Loy friendship

on Loy’s aging

as Lucille Le Sueur

MGM

mother

Parnell

turndown

politics

Possessed

Pretty Ladies

Rosalind Russell parts with

and Schary message pictures

Shearer and

after Thalberg’s death

and Tone

typecasting

Warner Bros.

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

The Women

Crimson City

Crocker, William H.

Cromwell, John

Cronkite, Walter

Crosby, Bing

Crosby, Juliette

Hornblow divorce

Hornblow separation

Loy and

Irene Selznick and

Crosby, Juliette—son.

See

Hornblow, John Terry

Crosland, Alan

Crossfire

Crouse, Lindsay

Crow Creek Valley ranch, Montana

Crowther, Bosley

Cukor, George

The Animal Kingdom

Crawford memorial

Hepburn

Little Women

Loy meeting

lunch with Loy and Kotsilibas-Davis

The Women

Culver City. See

also

MGM

Cummings, Irving

Curtis, James

Curtiz, Michael/Mihaly Kertesz

Czechoslovakia: invaded by Nazis/Hitler

Masaryk

Dailey, Dan

Daily Variety, The Rains Came

dance classes: California

Delsarte influences

Denishawn

Helena

Madame Matilda’s École de Choréographie Classicet

Ritter School of Expression (Loy teaching)

dance jobs: Grauman’s Egyptian Theatre

Pretty Ladies

dance performances: Crawford

Helena

Loy in movies

Loy’s

Westlake School for Girls.

See also

dance jobs

dances, social

Dane, Audrey

Daniels, Billy

Dantine, Helmut

Darnell, Linda

d’Arrast, Harry d’Abbadie

Dauphin, Claude

Davenport, Dorothy

Davenport, Harry

David, Lorna

Davies, Marion

Davis, Bette

Legendary Ladies of the Movies series

powerhouses

The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex

top actress (1941 and 1942)

vs. Warner Bros.

Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?

World War II

on Wyler

Davis, Nancy

Daw, Marjorie

Day, Doris

Dear Liar

(Kilty)

Dear Love

(Kilty)

DeHaven, Gloria

de Havilland, Olivia

Della.

See

Loy, Myrna—mother (Della Mae Johnson Williams)

del Ruth, Roy

Delsarte, François

DeMille, Cecil B.

Kosloff as dancer

Leisen as costume designer and art director

Madam Satan

Reap the Wild Wind

The Ten Commandments

DeMille, Katherine

Democratic Party: cold war

Convention (1940)

convention antiwar demonstrations (1968)

Dies

Helen Gahagan Douglas

Hornblow

JFK candidacy

Loy

Loy’s mother Della

Eugene McCarthy’s nomination (1968)

Motion Picture Democratic Committee

National Committee

New York

Olson

Schary

Stevenson

Truman presidency.

See also

Roosevelt, Eleanor; Roosevelt, Franklin D. (FDR)

Dempsey, Jack

Deneuve, Catherine

Denishawn

Denny, Reginald

Depression

Broadway Bill

performers

hardships in movies

marriage rate

MGM

Paramount receivership

Ziegfeld and

The Desert Song

The Devil to Pay

De Wolfe, Elsie

Diable au corps

Dickenson, Fred

Dickinson, Emily

Dies, Martin

Dietrich, Marlene

Dillinger, John

Dinner at Eight

Dishonored

divorce: Joan Bennett

Edward VIII and

Hertz-Loy

Hornblow-Crosby

Hornblow-Loy

Loy

Loy’s cinematic life

Markey-Loy

Mayer

O’Sheas

Powell

Production Code and

Sargeant-Loy

Terry Hornblow

Youngs

Dmytryk, Edward

Dodsworth

Dog Day Afternoon

dogs, playing Asta

Donehue, Vincent

Don Juan

Don Juan in Hell

(Shaw)

Doolittle, Mrs. James

Doro, Marie

Double Wedding

Douglas, Helen Gahagan

Douglas, Melvyn:

The Ambassador’s Daughter

General Electric Theater

Greek War Relief

Jewish

Loy co-star

Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House

Nick substitute

Ninotchka

politics

Third Finger, Left Hand

wife Helen

Dressler, Marie

drinking:

The Best Years of Our Lives

Clift

Crawford

Fitzgerald

Fleming

Gable

Hammett

Harlow

Myron Selznick

Prohibition

The Thin Man

Tracy

Van Dyke

Duke, Patty

Dunaway, Faye

Duncan, Isadora

Dunne, Irene

The Awful Truth

box-office drawing power

Bringing Up Baby

Consolation Marriage

Grant and

A Guy Named Joe

The Rains Came

premiere

RKO

and

The Thin Man

series

Thirteen Women

World War II

Dunne, Philip

Durante, Jimmy

Duse, Eleanora

DVD, Loy films

Earhart, Amelia

earthquake, Long Beach (1933)

Eddy, Nelson

Edward VIII, abdication

Edwards, Douglas

Edwards, India

Eichelberger, Clark

Eisenhower, Dwight D.

Eisenhower, Milton

Eldridge, Florence

Eleanor, hairdresser

Eleanor of Aquitaine

The Elevator

Elizabeth, Queen Mother

Ellis, Edward

Emma

The End

Entwistle, Peg

Ephron, Phoebe and Henry

Escapade

Europe: aging actresses

Brussels World Film Festival

Loy residence

Loy trips

Powell trip.

See also

Britain; Czechoslovakia; France; wars

Evans, Delight

Evans, Walker

Evelyn Prentice

The Exquisite Sinner

Fairbanks, Douglas Jr.: Crawford husband

guest lists

Loy-Markey wedding

Markey pal

Navy

and United Nations

wife Mary